Take back? and hold with what? If we held it during our
independance the aussies would have annexed it anyway. If we take
it back now do you think they will stand for it if we posted a unit
there to guard our claim? It was the right thing to do to sell it
off in the first place.
Also I heard under the old maritime law, anything above and under
the sea within 2km of the coast line belongs to you. And that means
if there is a stone or coral size of a durian protruding out of the
water, that claim is extended for another 2km, that means our claim
may even stretch all the way to spratly islands leow.
That's going head to head with the chinese, vietnamese, indoesians,
malaysians an bruneians and filipinoes who have oil claims
there.
You want them to declare WWIII on us.
No thanks!